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On the Margins
Filmmaker John Armstrong’s “outdoor adventures” find the human spirit.
by Lydialyle Gibson
An Ageless Voice on Aging
Adam Kirsch review Maurice Charney’s Wrinkled Deep in Time: Aging in Shakespeare.
by Adam Kirsch
A Man in Motion
An excerpt from Tocqueville's Discovery of America, by Leo Damrosch
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Chapter and Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Indie Film Blues
Film producer Mynette Louie ’97 on films, audiences, and the quest to connect them.
by Kevin Hartnett
Theatrical Chiaroscuro
Fredric Wilson’s book The Theatrical World of Angus McBean collects British midcentury theater images.
by Craig Lambert
Intellectual Entrepreneurs
Three Harvard Advocate alumni helped found a highbrow literary periodical.
Anatomy as Entertainment
An excerpt from A Hole in the Head: More Tales in the History of Neuroscience, by Charles Gross ’57
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
What This Country Needs
David Warsh reviews This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, by Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff.
by David Warsh